Fruit and vegetable manufacturing in 2022

The EU produces a variety of contemporary greens and fruit. Contemporary greens had been cultivated on 2.0 million hectares of land throughout the EU in 2022, on which 59.8 million tonnes of crops had been harvested. The three mostly grown contemporary greens – in amount phrases – had been tomatoes (15.4 million tonnes of harvested manufacturing), onions (6.2 million tonnes) and carrots (4.4 million tonnes).

In 2022, the EU produced 14.7 million tonnes of pome fruit (12.6 million tonnes of apples and a couple of.1 million tonnes of pears), 10.5 million tonnes of citrus fruit, 6.3 million tonnes of stone fruit (akin to peaches, nectarines, apricots, cherries, and plums), 2.6 million tonnes of sub-tropical and tropical fruit (akin to figs, kiwis, avocados, and bananas), 1.1 million tonnes of nuts and 0.7 million tonnes of berries.

This text presents only a handful of knowledge from the Key Figures on the European meals chain, 2023 version and the Statistics Defined article on the fruit and vegetable sector within the EU.

Manufacturing of sure contemporary greens was concentrated in particular EU nations. For instance, Italy accounted for 40% of the EU’s harvested tomatoes in 2022, adopted by Spain (24%) and Portugal (9%).   

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The Netherlands was the main onion producer, with almost one quarter (24%) of the EU’s harvested onions, forward of Spain (20%) and France (12%). Prime producers of carrots had been Germany (18% of the EU complete), France (15%) and Poland (14%).

Italy, Poland, Spain and France had been the primary producers of fruit, berries and nuts (excluding citrus fruit, grapes and strawberries) within the EU, though for some particular fruits, different EU Member States had been additionally key producers.

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The primary EU apple producers in 2022 had been Poland (34%), Italy (18%) and France (14%). 

As for peaches, 3 nations accounted for over 90% of peach manufacturing: Italy (34%), Greece (33%) and Spain (24%), leaving the remaining EU nations to contribute simply 9%. 

Italy (25%), the Netherlands (17%) and Belgium (17%) had been the primary producers of pears.